Published:
30 June 2026
Data collected from industry by Ofcom, data from Ofcom’s consumer research, and headline figures from selected third parties.
Market in context
This section contains charts on:
- Advertising spend across the communication and media sectors
- Consumer research on the affordability of communications services
- Device and service take-up and use
- Affordability issues across the communication and media sectors
Television and audiovisual
This section contains charts on:
- TV broadcaster revenues
- Hours and spend on content for commercial TV broadcasters
- Hours and spend for the public service broadcasters, for network and regional services
- TV viewing, including reach, share and average minutes per day.
- Production sector revenue trends
- Consumer research on the use of, and attitudes towards, video on-demand (VoD) services
- VoD services, catalogues and revenues
- The use of social video platforms among children and adults
Radio and audio
This section contains charts on:
- Radio broadcaster revenues
- Radio listening, including reach and share
- Community radio revenues and expenditure (to be updated in summer 2026)
- Consumer research about audio and podcast use and attitudes
Telecoms and networks
This section contains charts on:
- Telecommunications data revenues, volumes and market shares
- Online Communication Services (OCS) active users and volumes (to be updated in summer 2026)
- Average monthly spend data
- Home Broadband performance data
- Consumer research from our technology tracker
- Consumer research from our customer satisfaction tracker
Online
This section contains data on:
- Use of apps and websites, including reach, time spent and use on different devices
- People’s attitudes to, and experiences of, using online services, including potentially encountering harm online from our Online Experiences Tracker consumer research
- Users’ experience of harmful content, awareness of safety measures and reporting measures on video sharing platforms from our Video Sharing Platforms Tracker consumer research (to be updated in summer 2026)
- Take up and use of internet connectivity, including reasons for not being online, from Ofcom’s Technology Tracker consumer research (to be updated in summer 2026)
- It also includes insights on children’s online use:
- From the Children’s Online Safety Tracker Wave 2, covering children aged 8–17’s happiness online, the proportion of 11–17s encountering harm, and actions taken
- From the Children's Passive Online Monitoring 2026 study examining apps and websites used by children aged 8–14 and time spent
- Media literacy and online wellbeing, including how children use online services to support wellbeing, perceived benefits of being online, and attitudes to screen time from Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes, 2026.
Post
This section contains charts on:
- Consumer research data from our residential postal tracker
- Post volumes and revenues (to be updated in autumn 2026)